Editorial

In selecting Lon F. Povich, currently general counsel at BJ’s Wholesale Club, as his chief legal counsel, Gov.-elect Charlie Baker has chosen an attorney with an impressive breadth of experience and an equally important ability to work with a wide ...

The interim procedure announced earlier this month for implementing the new voir dire law represents a good start, but it shouldn’t be the last word on the subject. The rules are the work of a committee comprised of judges, representatives ...

A procedural rule that requires prosecutors to pay a defendant’s costs in defending an interlocutory appeal is turning out to have unexpected implications for the even-handed administration of justice. Rule 15(d) of the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure provides that ...

In a few weeks, Massachusetts will see an across-the-board change in leadership when a new governor, Senate president and attorney general take office. This changing of the guard creates a golden opportunity to take a comprehensive look at an issue ...

The state’s medical marijuana law, which was approved by more than 63 percent of the voters, took effect in January 2013 and allows up to 35 state-licensed dispensaries to grow and sell marijuana. While that should create a steady stream ...

The pardons recently recommended by Gov. Deval L. Patrick have been a long time coming. The last time anyone was pardoned in Massachusetts was in 2002, when acting Gov. Jane Swift pardoned seven people. Governors are empowered to recommend both ...

The sentences that U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young meted out to the defendants in the Probation Department case sent a clear message: John J. O’Brien, Elizabeth V. Tavares and William H. Burke III weren’t lone operatives; they were ...

The cost of law school has for some time now been a pressing issue for the legal community. The American Bar Association reported a few years ago that the average public law school student borrows more than $75,000 to finance ...

Twenty-eight Harvard Law School professors signed an op-ed published in The Boston Globe recently criticizing Harvard University’s new sexual misconduct policy for violating the due process rights of accused students. Among other changes, a “preponderance of the evidence” standard will ...

A recently released report from the Boston Bar Association is recommending an aggressive increase in state funding for the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp.: $30 million more over three years. That’s a big number. But the report compiled by a BBA ...